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Put the lime into a ftone veffel, and 
pour upon it fo much of the milk as will 
make a fmooth mixture; add the oil by 
“degrees, ftrving the mixture with a 
wooden {patula ; they add the remainder 
of the milk, and finally the’ Spanifh 
white. 
I have twice made ufe of the above, 
and on both occafions found it to anfwer 
very well, with the exception only of its 
not keeping a clear white when done upon 
any thing which had already received oil- 
paint. On my firft attempt I attended 
ftri€tly to the formula prefcribed by M. 
de Vaux; but on the fecond occafion of 
my ufing it, I left out the lime (chiefly 
from the inconvenience of procuring it); 
but it itill aniwered my purpofe very com- 
pletely, with the foregoing exception of 
its not keeping a clear white on thofe 
parts of my work which had before been 
oil-painted, and. where it took fomewhat 
of a yellowifh tint, while on the other 
parts which were plaifter, finifhed with 
what the bricklayers term fixe ftuff, it 
continues to hold a beautiful white; and 
in neither of the above caf¢s have I met 
with the inconvenience of which J.C. 
complains, viz. that of its eafily rubbing 
off. 
M.de Vaux alfo obferves in the fame 
Memoir, that a very good paint for out- 
door work alio may be made by adding 
to the above two ounces cf Burgundy- 
pitch and two ounces of refin with as 
much cil as may be neceffary to render it 
fufficiently liquid. 
I have not had occrfion to try the eff- 
cacy of the mixture prepared in this man- 
ner; but would fuggeit to J.C. if his 
ftill fails of fuccc{s, whether a fmall pro- 
porion of Burgundy pitch or refin might 
not with advantage be added even for in- 
door work, in order to render it more ad- 
hefive. The Burgundy-pitch would of 
courfe be the more preferable of the two 
for white paint, as having le{s colour than 
refin.  1t thould be melted in the oil with 
a gentle heat. 
CEconomicus. 
To the Editor of the Monthly Magazine. 
SIR, 
WRITER who. has taken the 
A trouble of criticifing, in a weekly 
a anew Tranflation of Apol- 
onus Rhedius, lately publifhed by me, 
among other remarks, fome of which ap- 
pear to me fair and judicious enough, has 
introduced the following :—‘* We think 
Voyage a Diffyliable. be 8 
it not right to ufe woyage as a diffyllable, 
as itis conftantly ufed all through this 
work, fince it is always in common fpeech 
pronounced as a monofyllable, not even 
though fupported by ome authority from 
Milton.” Aah 
The foregoing remark was wholly new 
tome, though I have long beena diligent 
reader of the beft Englifh, and particu- 
larly of poets. Idid not even apprehend 
that voyage was always pronounced as a 
monofyllable even in the rapidity of com- 
mon converfation. I knew it was fome- 
times fo pronounced ; but I ever confi- 
dered this as a thing happening through 
the hafte and inattention of incorreét 
fpeakers, and rather to be excufed than 
imitated. Certainly I never heard voyage 
fo pronounced in the pulpit, or on the 
ftace ; and to thefe we generally turn for 
authorities in the. propriety of elocution. 
I determined, however, tore-examine this 
point, and recurred to a number of autho- 
rities, particularly to fome of the mot 
learned and claflical Englith poets, in 
whofe writings, as I apprehend, the moft 
fterling end authentic pronunciation of 
words is generally to be found ; the refult 
of my inquiries is, that voyage is uniform- 
ly ufed as a diffyllable, and never, as far 
as I can find, employed asa monofyllable 
by any good writer. I fhall fele&t {me 
authorities, from an infinite number which 
I might quote, to fhow that voyage is ge- 
neraily ufed as a diflyllable : 
Sheridan’s Digtionary : 
Voyage, voy-edzh, f. a travel. by fea.—To 
Voyage, voy-edzbt, to travél.— Voyager, vey- 
edzh ut, one who travels. 
Walker’s Diétionary exprefles the word 
yet more plainly : 
Voyage, woe adge.——Voyager, Voe-a-jure 
Dr. Johnfon, in his Dictionary, under 
the word woyage, quoies the following 
line of Spenfer : ‘ 
Guyon forward gan his voyage make. 
Milton’s Paradife Loft, book II. line 
426: 
Alone the dreadful woyage, till at laft, &c. 
Line 920 : 
Pond’ring his voyage, for no narrow frith, 
&c, . 
Again ; 
I with pain, 
Voyag’d th? unreal vaft unbounded deep, &c. 
To do as other voyagers, and. make, &c. 
. Donne. 
Dryden's 
